Search - The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 08/31/2000 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 15 mins Studio: Creative Light Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Film, TV & Radio, Biography, Film & Television History, Sketch Comedy

Sid Caesar was the star and producer of two of the landmark television comedy series of the 1950's, Your Show Of Shows and Caesar's Hour, but a large part of Caesar's gift was his eye for talent -- his cast featured Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Nannette Fabray, and Howard Morris, and his writing staff included Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy features interviews with Caesar and his fellow actors and writers, discussing how the came to create some of the great moments of television's golden age. The video also features a number of classic sketches from Caesar's shows, including one of Caesar's famous doubletalk routines, The Cobbler's Daughter; a pantomimed argument set to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Sid as beatnik jazz musician Progress Hornsby; and the classic film parody From Here To Obscurity. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Sid Caesar

Part of The Sid Caesar Collection, Creating the Comedy comes to DVD from Creative Light Entertainment presented with a standard full-frame transfer in the original black-and-white with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. The disc includes the silent movie "A Rich Man's Joke" starring Charlton Heston and the original script for the sketch "Progress Hornsby" with handwritten changes and cuts. Writers Woody Allen and Larry Gelbart give brief interviews in which they remember having to write jokes naked. The DVD also includes a bonus musical sketch featuring the Haircuts singing "Going Crazy." Other special features include photo galleries, closed captions, and biographies for the writers and cast members. Highly recommended for fans of classic television comedy. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide